Some of this is in the book and elsewhere on this site, but some new stuff works its way in. Try skipping down if necessary. The following is from a letter I wrote to Lisa (from last spring) that was never answered:

Before I deal directly with your threat to sue me for libel/slander: Both these legal terms have to do with telling potentially damaging lies about another person, with malicious intent.

You have done this in several ways, with me the target. The most recent (that I know of) is your lying to Dan Fowlie about me.

On February 22 I got an email from Fowlie that stunned me to the core, given that I’d put my ass on the line for him by killing Pavones land deals (of his former holdings), spying for him, and defending him to newspapers and on my website, all of which put me at risk in Pavones. (When he came down he hired a bodyguard.) As you know, I got threats in Pavones for helping Fowlie. And as you also well know, I helped him with no ulterior motive, since my (our) land purchases were legal and with clear title (plus Fowlie had given me a document absolving me from future litigation).

Out of the blue Fowlie was accusing me of stealing his land, of being a fraud and a thief. For my book I’ll be archiving on my website all the relevant emails (yours, mine and Fowlie’s) but here’s a snippet from the email in question:

> Now I am going to give you some bad news. The
> reason I said you should give back the money to your
> clients is because you have committed an
> international fraud.

The details of Fowlie’s accusations are so absurd, so over the top in their falsity, that I’ll not go into them here. (His misinformation and the speciousness of his logic are obvious from our correspondences, which will soon be on my website.)

Where did he get this garbage?

From you, where else?

You’ve been emailing Fowlie since no later than mid-February, probably earlier than that, chatting him up first, then lying to him about me. Do you deny this?You told Fowlie that I wasn’t honest with you in our land dealings. Given your extortion (Lisa extorted $6,000 from me on the sale of our spec house) and overall dishonesty with me, this is incredible enough, but then you told Fowlie that I was dishonest with HIM.

From a Fowlie email:

I did later contact her (you, Lisa)> as I told you I would, to inquire on how much> property you were talking about (the land I’d bought with you, Lisa),
>and found that
> there was more than you told me on several
<purchases.

As is reflected in the document Fowlie gave me absolving me (and you, since you were my partner) from any future litigation, the area of land (as referred to above in Fowlie’s email) is defined as “about 3 hectares.” You well knew this.

As you also very well knew, the area of the land we bought was 3.1 hectares, i.e., “about 3 hectares.” Click here to see the planos. Notice that the “Area” is in fact 3.1 hectarias So: I did not lie to Fowlie about the land purchases, nor did I in any way cheat him. Did I?

I also received an email from Alan Nelson, who, as you well know, is the other side of the land conflict in Pavones, the other major player (aside from Fowlie), and Fowlie’s deadly enemy:

— Alan Nelson <******nelson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Allan,
.
> The problem is I have no idea what took place
> between you and Dan that you gave him $10,000 before
> you sold your house and quite a bit more afterwards.
> That is something that without the facts I cannot
> comment on. If you care to enlighten me I might have
> something to say, otherwise you're on your
> own……….Alan

>
Since I never gave Fowlie ANY money after I sold my house and since the lie that I had given him “quite a bit afterwards” would serve to alienate Nelson from me, I emailed Nelson asking where he’d heard that. He said from you, Lisa, during a conversation at Dona Dora’s in Pavones.

> — Alan Nelson wrote:
>
> > Hey dude,
.
> > I remember exactly what Lisa said because it
> > was only a couple of months ago and it was the
> only
> > conversation I have ever had with her. If I may
> > paraphrase her she said " Allan paid Dan $10,000
> > before he sold the house and quite a bit more than
> > that amount afterwards although I'm not sure
> exactly
> > how much".
> > I left with the impression you had probably
> > paid around $30,000 total, although that was
> nothing
> > more than a guess on my part. Hope this
> > helps….Alan

So I emailed back asking when you’d told him this lie.

— Alan Nelson <*****nelson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Allan,
> Within a day, one side or the other of
> Monday, February 20th………Alan

Interesting timing, since this maneuver on your part was simultaneous with your lying to Fowlie about me (mid to late February): Telling Fowlie I’d ripped him off by lying about how much land I (you and I) bought.

As reflected in Nelson’s first email, the lie that I supported Fowlie with “quite a bit (of money) afterwards” served to turn Nelson against me too, which was your intention. (His last sentence, “If you care to enlighten me I might have something to say, otherwise you're on your own……….” says it all about that, doesn’t it?)

You know good and goddamn well I never gave Fowlie any money after I sold my house. Don’t you?

You lied to both of these people, didn’t you, telling each one the diametric opposite of what you told the other? (And, again, both versions being lies.)  

Unlike Fowlie, Nelson contacted me to verify what you told him. Unlike with Fowlie, I was able to straighten this out, expose your lies, which was easy: I just forwarded to Nelson yours and Fowlie’s emails proving I didn’t give Fowlie more money, nor did I rip him off; and proving that you’re a liar.

Bad news for both you and Fowlie: After I straightened out the rift you tried to create between Nelson and me (it worked for a while), Nelson sent me some explosive documents, proof that he DID have power of attorney to sell the Fowlie’s land that we bought. Click here to go to one of these documents , which is the sale of Corozal, the parent corporation that owned the land, to Alan Nelson. (Fowlie has claimed that the document is a forgery (another forgery claim), but my attorney [who was our attorney until he refused to have anything more to do with you, after your extortion of the $6,000] checked and assured me that the document is genuine.)

[End of letter]

Believe it or not, this horseshit gets even more ridiculous. Re-enter Brian Neumann, the asshole who libeled me on Amazon. As I write from the late summer (2006), some whiz-bang revelations involving still more Brian-symmetry have come to light via my down south spies: Last spring, after spending a week together in San Jose, Lisa and Brian went in as partners on a 60 acre parcel near Pilon. (I don’t know how much Lisa raised for the piece, but I hear that another partner – a wealthy female friend from Montauk – added $650,000 to the development pot.)
But that’s not the real symmetry. The real symmetry is that Lisa and Brian also spent three days together as Fowlie’s houseguest in California, after which I received a flurry of emails from Brian accusing me of ripping him off in the land “I” sold him, Brian saying the land was “in conflict,” meaning that Fowlie had claim to it. (Hold on: Brian is at Fowlie’s with Lisa and then I get accused of being a rip off in a land deal? Sound familiar?)

It just never stops. And this one is downright surreal, if you think about it.

Keep in mind that in the land “I” sold Brian, Lisa was my equal partner. In fact, when Brian came to look at the land, Lisa did the pitching and the showing of the land (with her background in Public Relations – institutional bullshitting — she’s better at selling than I am), herself explaining the land’s history with Fowlie and how I had a very close relationship with Fowlie (which of course I did, until Lisa told him the above lies).

By the way: Upon meeting him and listening to his rap, Lisa branded Brian “a jerk,” saying she hoped he’d buy the land but never come back. Now they’re partners and fuckbuddies. (There’s a motif here: Lisa characterized one of her other fuckbuddies, Barry, “just another dumb gringo” and “a drunk;” and still another fuckbuddy, Kim, “a wimp” and “a rip off.”)

Lisa also explained to Brian that I’d secured a document from Fowlie absolving me from any future litigation regarding the land, including the parcel Brian bought. You can Click here to read the document . 

When I emailed Fowlie reminding him of the above document he signed absolving me from legal problems, he pulled a classic in petard-hoisting (outsmarting himself): he emailed saying the document he signed was “defective” because he didn’t own the land; one of his corporations did. How stupid can one jailbird get? Didn’t he read any law books during his 18 years in the clink, like smart jailbirds do? I mean: Fowlie was admitting to fraud in accepting the 10k I gave him for the document, since he’s now saying the document he signed is invalid. And this doesn’t even count the fact that Fowlie had been lying all the time in saying he had any legal claim, since the corporation that he now admits owned the land (Corozal) was legally transferred to Alan Nelson back in 1992 (see the above link to the document, signed by his son [an officer of Corozal] in front of a Costa Rican notary).

If you’re getting a slight déjà vu feeling here: These folks are starting to remind me of Dubya and his gang in the way they can’t keep anything about their dumb-ass stories straight.

On a more serious note: If Fowlie annoys me one more time I’ll press charges for extortion and fraud (the 10k), put him back in the clink to serve out his 30 year sentence on the RICO Act (conducting a continuing criminal enterprise). I’ve already been in touch with his parole officer on this.

By the way: Hooray for paradise, no?

In Brian’s initial email claiming I sold him “tainted” land he brags that he just visited Fowlie (omitting the interesting fact that Lisa was with him), adding what a nice guy Fowlie is.

Although this gets still better (and more surreal) you have to picture what’s already going on: I get an email demanding I return the money paid me by this “jerk” who bought land from me two years ago (plus a huge profit, Brian demanding that I give him $200k for his $65k lot), while meanwhile he’s a fuckbuddy of the person who was my equal partner in the land when we sold it to him (and who labeled him a jerk), Brian also having gone in as partners with her on a big land deal, and the two of them were recent houseguests of the guy Brian claims is trying to take the land back from him, and who is a “nice guy,” the nice guy having also branded me a rip off even though he’d assured me via a signed document that I wasn’t a rip off. (Plus — via the above document proving Nelson did have the right to sell the land — Fowlie never had any rightful claim to the land to begin with.)

If you’re having trouble wrapping your mind around this, I can’t say that I blame you.

Some obvious questions came to mind when I got Brian’s lunatic email, and which questions I emailed back to Brian, one being this: Since his partner in the new land deal (and fuckbuddy) was right there with him (Lisa), probably looking over his shoulder as he wrote the accusatory email, why didn’t he ask her about getting his money back (plus a huge profit), since she would have to cough up half the refund, she having been my equal partner in the alleged rip off of Brian? A good question, no? And since the two of them were right there with the “nice guy” who is supposedly trying to take the land back, didn’t my former equal partner (Lisa) mention the document (guaranteeing that the land title was clean) the nice guy gave me — in which her name is mentioned along with mine as owners of the land, and which document Brian in any case already knew about?

Again: Can you wrap your mind around this stuff? No? Well, it is tough.

(But wait. Another good [related] question: How could Fowlie accuse me of ripping him off without accusing Lisa of being in on the rip off, since, again, Lisa was my equal partner in the land, and knew everything I knew? How did that work when Lisa and Fowlie and Brian were sitting around concocting this utter horseshit?)

If you missed it before, you can click here to see the document Fowlie gave me absolving Lisa and me from future land litigation from him, and which Lisa knew well about. Notice that Lisa’s name is included as my equal partner. 

Overkill: Here’s Brian’s howler of an email demand:

(From:"Brian Neumann" <bneumann@mac.com>  View Contact Details   Add             Mobile Alert            

Subject:Re: My lot
Date:Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:39:27 -0700            

To:"Allan Weisbecker" acwdownsouth@yahoo.com>

(Note that the email address is indeed the same one from which the libelous Amazon review came.)
          
how about giving me my money back?  I am figuring
that, since I invested $65,000 in the land over a
year ago, I should get more than $65,000 back.  I
should get the same value you got for your land,
which is about $30 per meter.  So I figure you can
buy back my lot for $200,000 or trade this lot for a
comparable one that has clean title.

Aside from all of the above: Brian is building a house on the property he claims he is on the verge of losing, which begs still another good question – why would he throw money into the land if he fears losing it? Answer: He doesn’t fear losing it. He’s lying about… everything.

And think about this: the asshole paid about $10 per sq meter for the land, right? And he is asserting that my adjacent land is worth $30 sq meter, right? Sounds like he got a helluva deal, no? Which he did. And I have to listen to this?

Still another good question: Since anyone, including Brian, can go to the Costa Rican land registry website and see that Brian does in fact have clean title to his land (plus my lawyer double checked), mightn’t a disinterested third party come to the conclusion that Brian and Lisa (plus Fowlie) have an ulterior motive in all this utter horseshit, a motive having nothing whatever to do with land titles?

But what might the motive be? This: Another dumb-ass, transparent, specious attempt to discredit my book (like the Amazon review), that’s what. If anyone can come up with another motive, I’d love to hear it.

Do you see why I’m pissed off and want to put this stuff on the record?

To repeat: As Lisa and Brian both know, part of the mission statement of my website and newsletter (which Lisa helped me craft) is to give people advice on Costa Rican land buying, including who to avoid down there (and how to avoid fucking up paradise). They should have thought of that before libeling me in a public forum (Amazon) and lying to people about me (slander); plus accusing me of fraud (more slander).

To any lawyer thinking of representing either of these two in a lawsuit against me: Once you lose your case, be ready to defend them when I take them to court. (Plus: How do you get through the day?)

To sum up, to belabor the obvious: You’d have to be a complete fool to do business with these people in their attempt to get rich as land developers, let alone in a Third World country. But since you’ve probably read my book, you already know this.

One last thing: If any of you out there know Brian Neumann’s wife, you might alert her to this stuff. I suspect there are aspects of which she is ignorant.

And again: Hooray for paradise!